As I
walked through a strip casino I passed the craps tables and noticed
a show girl standing there wearing her outfit and hat. I walked up
to her and asked, “I’m curious, is your hat heavy?” She replied,
“Yes, it’s very heavy.” Then in a sultry voice she asked, “Do you
want to play craps?” I obediently nodded my head yes and in a meek
voice I said, "OK". Within 30 minutes I lost $600 on that craps
table. Then I went full tilt. Trying to chase my losses I went into
the High Limit room (without the showgirl) and tried playing
blackjack. In an hour I lost $5,400; so in 90 minutes I lost a total
of $6,000. This is not the worse gambling loss I've ever suffered
but it ranks right up there.
~Stoney
She Could've Stolen The Money By Denying She Got It
I sauntered up to a
video poker game and pulled out a hundred dollar bill to insert into
the machine. Being an
addicted smokeless tobacco user with a hit already in my mouth, I
was looking around for a spit cup. A casino cleaning lady asked me if she could help me and I
asked for a cup to use. She very promptly retrieved a cup for me and I tipped her a dollar.
I sat down and was
fixing to beat this machine mercilessly. As I fed the hundred dollar bill into the machine I saw it
was really a one dollar bill. My brain started chanting
shit… shit… shit…. as I
realized what I did.
I spied the cleaning lady over in the sports book area talking to a man sitting at the bar. I made a bee line over there and as she saw me galloping toward her, without saying a word, she reached into her shirt pocket and handed me the $100. I thanked her and tipped her a $20.
~Stoney
The first week I started
dealing blackjack I was on a double deck table which was completely
full. There was a pretty woman playing on 3rd base and
she was laughing and talking to her friends who were next to her. I
dealt her 2 cards and she glanced at them and made the hitting
motion. I had flipped the card half-way over when she jumped up and
started waving her hands around screaming, “No! I made a mistake.
Don’t!” By the time she had finished that sentence I had already
given her the card and it was an ace. She flipped over her two cards
to show a 20. She had hit a 20 and got an ace for 21. In the 5 years
I’ve dealt blackjack I’ve never seen that happen again.
~Heather 2004
On my
blackjack table I have a way of dealing the cards so that the bottom
edge of my card is parallel to the straight edge of the table. This
makes it easier for the floorman and the cameras to read the cards.
I have been doing this for 5 years and I’m stubborn about it. There
was one player that, when I dealt him his cards, he would move them
so that they were facing sideways (this way the cards would seem
straight to him and, also, this is the way most dealers would deal
the cards). Me being my stubborn self, I couldn’t stand seeing the
cards messed up so I would change it back. He got so pissed that he
told me, “Don’t touch my cards! It’s bad luck!” I told him, “These
are my cards, I have been touching them all day and if you have any
bad luck it’s from your own stupidity, not from the position of the
cards.”
~Heather 2008
I was dealing
double deck blackjack to a man in his 30’s; he was good looking with
black hair and he was the only person playing out of his entire
group of friends. The friends were sitting at the table watching him
play and cheering him on because he had been winning for a while; he
had stacks and stacks of green chips in front of him. I was down to the
last of my green chips in the
rack so on his next winning
hand I
tried to pay him with a black chip. He got so mad he wouldn’t touch
it and he demanded that I pay him in green. I told him I was running
out of green and I needed to pay him in black. He said that black
was bad luck and he told me to call my floorman over. So I called
over the floorman, Cory and the player demanded that he get paid in
green chips. Cory looked at my rack and
saw how low I was on green chips and then he saw how many green chips the player had and he
said, “No, she is paying you in black.” The player was furious, “No!
You order more green chips! Put a fill on the table!” “I’m not going
to put a fill on the table when you are going to have to color up
sometime soon and I won’t do a credit. So since you can’t walk away
with all of those greens you can either color up or leave it all
behind.” Cory said frustrated. The player pushed all of his
chips to
me and said, “Color me up, I’m leaving. This table turned into bad
luck anyway.” So I colored him up, he left and we were so thrilled the
asshole was gone.
~Heather 2007
The general consensus on
all table side bets is that they are sucker bets.
I really like the blackjack side bet called Lucky Ladies.
It's played on a double deck or 6 deck shoes.
You win anytime you have a natural 20.
The payoff increases exponentially with suited 20's, matching
suited 20's etc. all the way up to having a pair of queen of hearts,
(Lucky Ladies), which pays 200:1 odds (not all Lucky Ladies have
this payoff, but the ones I search out do).
If the dealer has a blackjack and you have the Lucky Ladies
it pays 1,000:1.
~Stoney
If It Worked Before, It Should Work Again
I was dealing single deck blackjack when a woman sat down and changed $100. After playing for 5 minutes it was obvious to me that she was new to blackjack and had no idea what she was doing. I tried to be nice and tell her how to play but she insisted on playing her way, which was fine with me. My gambling motto has always been “It’s your money; you earned it, so you can spend it however you please.” The woman at the table told me, “I started playing yesterday morning; before that I had never played blackjack before. My husband received a blackjack tournament invitation and he didn’t want to play so he gave his ticket to me. I played my way yesterday in the tournament and won 1st place, so I want to keep playing my way. It worked in the tournament so it will work here.” I didn’t argue with that and she left an hour later with $125.
~Heather 2006
